7,000 people. this week this ten-day period, 700,000 people are expected and they re in the stores and they re in the restaurants, they re trading patches with each other, enjoying seeing each other for first time because many of them only see each other here at the sturgis rally because that s the whole point, they re from out of town, which means they re going to be getting back on their bikes, getting back on planes. they re going to be heading off to wherever they re from, possibly infebting their families and community members back there. that s exactly what happened here last year when they had this rally with 400,000 people. the city of sturgis is doing things a little bit different this time to try to tamp that down in terms of the coronavirus case spread. what they re doing is handing out free masks, hand sanitizer, giving away free coronavirus test kits and also making the one shot johnson & johnson vaccine available to anyone who wants so they can get vaccinated today. i did